He was appointed in command of the battleship Hibernia on 12 June, 1908.[2]

He was appointed in command of Edgar on 12 January, 1910,[3] and of Cumberland in June 1910.

The Great War

He was appointed in command of the armoured cruiser Bacchante in August 1914 and then directly over to the unfinished super-dreadnought Malaya on 28 November, 1915.[4] He commissioned the new vessel on 1 January, 1916.